The dance studio business is one of the world's lowest cost, easiest and most profitable business to operate
Starting with an investment of as simple as just a nice empty room without mirrors, a qualified studio owner with proper knowledge can eventually make as much as US$20,000 a month. This business requires very low investment and does not need expensive high traffic location to operate. Compared to starting a small restaurant which may require up to 50 times more investment cost and 30 times higher monthly operating cost. Oper ating a dance studio can also be a lot less complicated and many times higher in profitability.
A simple business comparison of dance studio and a restaurant
| Studio | Restaurant | |
| Size | 1500 sq ft | 1500 sq ft |
| Capacity | 100 students in 1 hour and collect 100 x US$15 | 50 seats in 1 hour can only make 40 x US$15 |
| Income | US$1500/peak hour | US$600/peak hour |
| Cost of food | 0 | US$200 |
| Rental | US$1500/month | US$20,000/month |
| Staff | One owner teaching | 10 Staff (managing staff is a very difficult task) |
| Investment cost | US$8,000 | US$400,000 |
Many untrained and non-certified dance studios cannot survive in the industry just like many restaurants with untrained chef fail. Proper training, knowledge and certification is very important. Aceki provides many supporting products, services and franchises to help you to succeed in your dance venture. You can pick and choose whichever program you prefer.
A franchisee running successful branches can make between US$5,000 to US$20,000 per branch. One can own a few studios if they can manage them well. A franchisee may choose to teach and manage a studio full time or hire staff to teach and manage several studios on a part-time basis. Typically an additional successfully managed branch will make the owner another US$1,000 to US$10,000 every month with the owner only participating in management.
| Franchisee | Monthly Income | Number of Studio |
| Full-time teaching & managing | US$5000-US$20,000 | 1 |
| Part-time teaching & managing | US$1000-US$10,000 | Subsequent studios |
Careers with Aceki
A Part-time Top Teacher can make as much as US$5,000 a month using the Aceki Points System
| Position | Monthly Income | Minimum requirements |
| Full Time Trainee Teacher | US$1200 | Certification: SFDF |
| Assistant Teacher | US$1800 | Certification: Diploma |
| Teacher Grades 1-5 | US$2500 - US$7000 | Certification: IHDC |
| Manager Trainee | US$1800 | Certification: SFDF |
| Assistant Studio Manager | US$2800 | $50,000 sales revenue |
| Studio Manager | US$5000 | $250,000 sales revenue for a 10,000 sq ft dance studio space |
| Senior Studio Manager | US$8000 | |
| City Manager | US$10,000 | |
| Regional Manager | ||
| Senior Regional Manager | ||
| Director | ||
| Senior Director |
There many more other position open for SFDF, Diploma and IHDC graduates like Team Lead, Call Center Product Consultant, Marketing Manager, Product Manager/Director, Regional Director, Product Designer, Course Consultant, Examination Board Member, Examiner, Course Developer, Factory Manager, Site Director, Franchise Consultant, Inspector and more.
Aceki has been on a world-wide search, traveling continent to continent flying from city to city for the past couple of years in search of the world's best CXOs and talents to champion the company's vision of becoming the leader in a next multi-trillion dollar industry
Let us take a look at Apple, the world's No.1 Company as reported by Guardian UK (Tuesday 9 August 2011) - Apple has surpassed oil group Exxon to become the world's most valuable company by market capitalisation. Apple overtook Exxon with a market value of $337bn compared to ExxonMobil's $334bn. Sold 20.34m iPhones – more than double the number in the same period last year – and 9.25m iPads, almost triple the number sold during its debut quarter in 2010. Revenues were $28.57bn, up 90% year-on-year, and profits $7.31bn, a rise of 124%.
Aceki is in the dance, education and leisure business. Our target market is between 2 years old to 80 years old. Our customer can spend up to $10,000 per month for classes, parties, events, overseas trips and apparels with us. See report from BBC - 6 September 2006 - A prominent Hong Kong banker paid HK$120m (US$20 million) to famous salsa dancers for private dance lessons.
The potential market of the dance, education and leisure business is a lot bigger than Apple, with better profitability and a lot less competitive. Apple sells 1 Iphone, 1 Macbook, 1 Ipad on an average to a customer every two year that works out to be US$100 per month. Where as it is not uncommon for our top customer to spend up to US$500 every month of classes, parties, events, overseas trips and apparel.
Aceki have develop many different marketing programs, products and services to convert non-dance enthusiast into customers and keep them for a life time starting from age 2 years old.
Thanks to the advancement of mass media technologies over the past 2 decades, there was never another time when dancing is more cross-cultural and popular as a form of social activity enjoyed by almost anyone. The potential market in this industry is in trillions of dollars a year and Aceki is at the forefront of it.
What you need
Aceki Universal Qualifications for Excellence (AUQE) offers one of the most practical certification for today's dance professionals.
There are many dance degree programs offered by universities worldwide but they are mostly developed by academics or dance professional who do not have in-depth knowledge and understanding of the real needs of today's fast changing dance industry and hence their graduates are not equipped with the right skill set to find a successful career upon graduation. Many of these universities are simply not providing their graduates the necessary training required to secure a sustainable career as a dance professional and many dance degree holders cannot get full time employment to their maximum potential.
Aceki being an international dance products manufacturer and solutions provider understands the needs of the industry very well and have tried to use such graduates but find them not up to the mark by today's standards. Many universities offering dance degrees today are more focused on selling the academic aspects of dance for their own profitability than to actually solve the human resource problem faced by the industry. That is why Aceki works with industry professionals to form a certification body called AUQE (Aceki Universal Qualifications for Excellence) to address this issue.
"Aceki has various departments which work to develop with the industry, for the industry on a daily basis, globally."
Aceki welcomes other academic establishments to leverage on Aceki's industry knowledge in developing their dance degree programs.
Aceki currently recognizes AUQE-IHDC to be the preferred certification. All dance professionals working for ACEKI must have the relevant AUQE certification. Aceki recommends all affiliated dance establishments and partners to use the AUQE certification as a mark for employing professionals for their establishment in order to reduce the challenges of working with unqualified personnel.
Dance establishments are strongly encouraged to send their dance professionals and dance graduates through AUQE certification to ensure that they would achieve a competitive edge in meeting current market demands by using one of the best skills training and assessment programmes in the industry today.